The Cole, Berkshire
Historical Description
Cole, The, a river of Berks and Wilts. It rises at the Ridge Way, in the vicinity of Idstone, and runs 10 miles north by westward, chiefly on the boundary between Berks and Wilts, to the Isis at Lechlade.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Berkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of The Cole are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Berkshire papers online: